| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-9页 |
| ·The organization of the Thesis | 第6页 |
| ·Debate Is a Popular Speech Event | 第6-7页 |
| ·Debate Deserves Academic Attention From a New Perspective | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第9-16页 |
| ·Classical Argumentation Theory | 第9-10页 |
| ·Pragma-Dialectic Theory of Argumentation | 第10-13页 |
| ·Speech Activity Type | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Three Corpus,Aim and Analysis Tool | 第16-20页 |
| ·Data Source | 第16-17页 |
| ·Research Focus | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theoretical Basis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapte Four Descriptive Analysis | 第20-55页 |
| ·Goals of the Participants in Debating Interaction | 第20-24页 |
| ·Allowable Contributions | 第24-31页 |
| ·Gricean Maxims | 第31-37页 |
| ·Politeness Principle | 第37-40页 |
| ·Turn-Taking and Topic Control | 第40-44页 |
| ·The Manipulation of Pragmatic Parameters | 第44-49页 |
| ·Pragmatic Ambivalence and Its Constraining Functions | 第49-55页 |
| Chapter Five Evaluation of the Research Results | 第55-67页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-56页 |
| ·Discussion | 第56-67页 |
| ·Genre-Specific Modifications of and Contributions to the Framework of Speech Activity Type | 第56-59页 |
| ·Manipulation of Main Pragmatic Principles and Local Management of Conflict Interaction | 第59-63页 |
| ·Strategic Operation of Debating Discourse | 第63-67页 |
| Chapter Six Concluding Remarks | 第67-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-71页 |
